Activists say detentions break promise to protect those standing up to sexual assault Egyptian security forces have arrested six witnesses, including three women, in an

The UK health secretary has commented on Sunday’s sharp rise in coronavirus cases, after nearly 3,000 more people tested positive. Matt Hancock said: ‘The rise

Pope Francis strays from his prepared text to repeat his frequent complaint about gossiping within church communities and even within the Vatican bureaucracy. Francis did

Israeli police moved in to clear protesters from a square in Jerusalem early on Sunday, as thousands protested outside the official residence of the prime

With its cynical disabling of the body politic, the Trump administration has contaminated the well of US independence Once upon a time, at the start

The US president declined to accept the German government’s assessment that the Russian opposition leader was attacked with a nerve agent. This week the chancellor,

A furious Joe Biden castigated Donald Trump after it was reported that the US president had called dead soldiers ‘losers’ and ‘suckers’. ‘If what is written is

Widespread vaccinations against Covid-19 are not expected until the middle of next year, according to the World Health Organization, which has stressed the importance of

Nato has condemned the poisoning of the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny with the nerve agent novichok as a ‘disrespect for human life’ and ‘breach